The revolution's fratricidal — even parricidal — nature was illustrated by the clash between that stalwart of the rebellion Benjamin Franklin and his son William, who was strongly opposed to breaking away from the British and was never reconciled to his father.

You will shudder with horror when you know the situation you are in, when you know that the armed forces are confided to parricidal hands, when you know that the chief of the national guard had been denounced in the committee of public safety by the revolutionary tribunal as an accomplice of Hébert and an infamous conspirator.

Indeed it is tempting and possible here to link the question of "legacy" (legs) to the marionette's dancing legs, to the grace whereby the seemingly proper or faithful inheritance (in this case of reading and of romanticism, of the rhetoric of romanticism — in advance) is also parricidal thanks to the unconsciousness of elegance and non-anxiety.